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Reads the newspaper daily to ensure she hasn't hurt anyone; she's very familiar with worldly affairs because of this.

Immediately recognizes other lefties.

Mother was, likewise, a southpaw.

Along with Senjougahara Hitagi, attended the public Seifuu Middle School.

At a running pace, her house is about thirty minute from the high school.

Her left hand usually only "gets bad" at night.

Wants to give her virginity to Senjougahara.

After Kanbaru retired from basketball, Higasa inherited the position of captain. However, she saw herself only as a "substitute captain". She quit shortly after Kanbaru did.

Considers "substituting something with something else" her forte.

Mother's criticism functions as auditory hallucinations.

Fell in love with Senjougahara within three days of meeting her.

Before breakfast every morning, she jogs ten kilometers. Because of this, she always misses eating with her grandparents, and still has yet to eat a meal with them.

She's skeptical of assertions like, "you feel better when you talk," or "you feel better when people hear you out."

The first time she wished on the devil's arm was in elementary school, eight years from the her appearance in the story.

When her mother entrusted the mummified arm to her, it was the last time she would see her. "A few days after receiving the box, almost as if she had foreseen what would happen and gave her the box beforehand, Kanbaru's parents both died in a traffic accident." It occurred at the time of her math class, in which her parents died instantly in a massive pileup on a highway. Because the car caught fire, the bodies were barely recognizable. She was taken in by her grandparents on her father's side

No bookshelves exist in her room, nor containers for garbage.

Her smile is "too invigorating", to the point of being "unpleasant".

The reason she chose the private Naoetsu High School was to follow Senjougahara.

She can't cook at all lol; her grandmother prepares meals for her.

Oshino told her that Araragi resigned himself to being a vampire in order to save Shinobu. One of the few that knows of this.

She absorbs energy at an "extraordinary rate" by eating food. She hates wasting food, and also is the type that has to "eat like crazy" or she loses a lot of weight.

Didn't own a cellphone for seventeen years, until she mistakenly thought Arargi asked her out on a date so she went ahead and bought one in preparation for it.

Always overly-respectful with her honorifics, despite her actions saying otherwise.

Araragi hypothesizes she only has ten percent body fat.

Kanbaru and Araragi agree that if they both hadn't met Senjougahara first, they probably would've ended up dating each other; Kanbaru admits it's rare for her to feel that about a member of the opposite sex.

Sometimes considers insults to be compliments (allegedly a result of her masochism).

Swore to a random streetlight on serving Araragi for the rest of her life.

She knows a lot about star constellations, astronomy and astrology. She likes observing the night sky, owns a telescope, and goes to astronomical observation events they hold twice a year at observatories in different prefectures. Her favorite is shooting stars; she wishes the earth would become a shooting star one day.

NOTABLE QUOTES→

Araragi: Kanbaru Suruga was so well known in our school that I doubted a single student had not heard of her.

Araragi: The things Kanbaru Suruga did, or the actions she took, became gossip that spread throughout the school, whether they were things that mattered in the slightest bit or not. If you gathered all of that gossip, you could probably write an entire book. Even if you didn’t particularly care, or even if you actively tried to avoid it, you would still hear things about Kanbaru Suruga. Any student at our school, regardless of year, could immediately learn what she'd eaten for lunch. You simply had to ask anyone around you. But gossip was filled with rumors.

Araragi: I was fairly certain a character that unwittingly made such insulting compliments had never before existed.

Araragi: Her running long jump sent her farther than just a meter or two. Her ideal form and perfect arcing trajectory through the air seemed to ignore the law of universal gravity.

(About Ougi.) This boy has the tendency to overact. An affected way of living. To say it in a way that's easier to understand, it was as if he were playing a character — it was making my heart buzz. I felt like I was being shown, bit-by-bit, the parts I hated of myself.

Araragi: It appears out school's star was already morally bankrupt, even without all the rumours going around about her.

"Don't you get it?! You were doing something that I really, really wanted to do, but gave up. At first, I was jealous. I tried to rethink my feelings. But in the end, I was still jealous of you. I wondered why I wasn't good enough. I wondered if it would be different if I were a boy. I wondered if it was because I was a girl. Maybe she didn't need an underclassman or even a friend, but wanted a lover. If that was the case, why couldn't it be me?! I was jealous of you, and I was disappointed with her. And I was on the verge of giving up on someone like myself. To hell with healing her pain... To hell with keeping my distance from her... Did I seriously think she was going to praise me for that? That's ridiculous! How could I be that hypocritical?! But... Even so... I wanted her to treat me kindly, like the way she used to. Maybe it's just selfish, but I want to be near her no matter what. So that's why... So that's why I asked this paw to grant my wish. I wanted to be by her side."

I am neither kind, nor soft. So, maybe that four kanji compound is not appropriate for me — I should say that I am simply selfish. I am Selfish-sama. He desired everything, and lost everything. Senjougahara-senpai's beloved Selfish-sama. He obtained everything in the beginning, yet he possessed nothing in the end. That's me, the life of Kanbaru Suruga.

I am an idiot.

Until now, I have disliked many people, and hated many others. ... As a matter of fact, I don't even know if I could publicly declare that, in this world, somebody whom I have never hated exists.

I've already become absolutely inhuman.

"It's a type of torture that I've always wanted to have done to me."

Oshino: "If this were a standard case of hearing that an old friend got a boyfriend, you would be right. However, this case is different, Araragi-kun. You did what Kanbaru could not, so this isn't all that surprising. Kanbaru views what you did as what she had been unable to do."

Oshino: ""It's not a Monkey's Paw— it's a demon's hand. Of course, it will grant you anything you wish for... I mean, after all, it's a trade for your soul."

Oshino: "The only one who can save you is you yourself, Young Lady."

Oshino: "It's not surprising that she'd be jealous enough to want to kill the guy who took away her beloved senpai. When she attacked you, it wasn't against her intentions. She intended to kill you."

Oshino: "She wanted to be fast because she hated her classmates. She wanted to be by Senjougahara's side because she hated Araragi."

Oshino: "Though it was unconscious, Young Lady, I think you should know very well what really happened. But you didn't want to admit it, so you went looking for a different explanation for what happened. That was... the Monkey's Paw. Blaming the assault of your classmates on the Monkey's Paw distorting your wish, or claiming that it wasn't what you intended, is just an excuse."

"I have a bad habit of fooling even myself, so there is much I must learn from you."

"I worked really hard to come up with that, you know. By the way, I also thought of the nickname 'Kanbaru Suruga-chan' for myself, but unfortunately that never caught on."

"It seems obvious, but my parents' death really did affect me. So, I closed off my heart. It's not like I could tell everyone around me to treat me nicely just because I had closed off my heart, though. At the time, I was trapped by my feelings about my parents' death. However, I couldn't lose myself in my memories of my parents. I couldn't indulge in those memories. My grandfather and grandmother disposed of all of my parents' belongings; they didn't leave a single thing. They probably wanted to raise me so that I would have nothing to do with my parents at all."

Araragi: Really, she interprets anything and everything to be good for herself, this junior does.

"With my left arm like this, the only one who could be my opponent would be Araragi-senpai, who has the power of a vampire."

"“Age means nothing when you have faith. Just like age means nothing when you have love."

"A small kindness can seem like a great nuisance."

"Yes. I wanted to swear on the sun which is always shining on mankind and providing us with its blessings, but since it happened to be night at the time, I swore on a random streetlight."

""So... I think I know pretty well what kind of person you are. I truly think you are worthy of the way I’m treating you. Even if you weren’t Senjougahara-senpai's boyfriend, and even without last month... I would have seen you were worthy of respect no matter how I had met you. I promise you that in the name of my legs."

Araragi: Kanbaru looked like she wanted to say more, but she must have decided it was best left unsaid because she remained silent. She would say what she needed to say, but she would restrain herself when she only wanted to say it. She really was too good to be wrapped around my left arm like that.